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<\/div>Comb The Desert<\/h2>
A team of scientists hunting for extraterrestrial civilizations just scanned 10 million stars — and came back with nothing.<\/p>
Scientists at Australia’s Curtin University and CSIRO research organization scanned a vast region of space with an array of 4096 antennas in hopes that they might pick up on radio transmissions of an alien society, according to CNET<\/em><\/a>, but came up dry. The discovery doesn’t rule out the possibility of extraterrestrial life<\/a> — but if it exists, it’s either elsewhere or it doesn’t have technology that resembles ours.<\/p> The search was the largest ever of its kind by two orders of magnitude, according to research<\/a> published Monday in the journal Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia<\/em>. And while the scientists hoped they’d turn up something<\/em>, they’re still holding out hope.<\/p> After all, even their large scale was like hunting for an object in the ocean but only checking “a volume of water equivalent to a large backyard swimming pool,” CSIRO researcher Chenoa Tremblay told CNET<\/em>.<\/p> “Looking for technosignatures is assuming that the civilization [has] technology similar to our own,” Tremblay added.<\/p> For better or worse, these SETI experiments rely on other scientific endeavors<\/a> — and astronomers generally hunt for life in regions of space that are already being probed for other purposes. So they don’t yet know whether they’ll move on to a new chunk of the night sky for their next attempt, nor do they know where it would be.<\/p> “Where we go next will depend on the other science,” Tremblay told CNET<\/em>.<\/p> READ MORE: <\/strong>Astronomers find no signs of alien tech after scanning over 10 million stars<\/a> [CNET<\/em>]<\/p> More on SETI: <\/strong>SETI Team Increases Number of Stars That Might Host Life by 200x<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Scientists Search 10 Million Stars, See No Signs of Alien Civilization<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> More: Comb The Desert A team of scientists hunting for extraterrestrial civilizations just scanned 10 million stars \u2014 and came back with nothing. Scientists at Australia\u2019s Curtin University and CSIRO research organization scanned a vast region of space with an array of 4096 antennas in hopes that they might pick up on radio transmissions of an alien society, according to CNET , but came up dry. Continue reading Wide Net<\/h2>
Hitching A Ride<\/h2>
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